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foots the bill

foots the bill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foot the bill.

Meaning of foot the bill

Verb

foot the bill (third-person singular simple present foots the bill, present participle footing the bill, simple past and past participle footed the bill)

  1. (idiomatic) To pay for something.
    • The cop tried the door. “It's locked, hey,” he said. “Bust it down,” roared Oedipa, “and Hitler Hilarius here will foot the bill.”1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 103

Questions about foots the bill

What is foots the bill the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Foots the bill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foot the bill.

Words near foots the bill in the dictionary

  1. footrunner
  2. footrunners
  3. foots
  4. Foots Creek
  5. foots it
  6. foots the bill
  7. foots up
  8. footsal
  9. footscraper
  10. footscrapers
  11. Footscray

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